Black & Decker DCM1400B Cafe Noir 10-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker, Black

fine economical breed of coffee maker
Black & Decker makes an excellent budget oriented coffee maker with lots of features especially considering the low price you pay for it. I have use this coffee maker for almost two years without any complaints; it brews a great cup of coffee in a very short amount of time. Love that java kick in the morning! You can even make up to ten cups of coffee with this machine! Oh, thank heaven!

The machine plugs into any standard electrical outlet--and from there on in the benefits are all yours. You can program this unit the night before so that you wake up to a great cup of coffee--the timer and clock features help to do that. It's easy enough to place a new coffee filter in the coffee filter holder; and the water reservoir runs around the coffee filter holder. When you open the plastic lid that covers the top of the coffee maker you can see the coffee filter holder in the circular middle of the top of the coffee maker; and the water resevoir runs around it.

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Great coffeemaker for the price
It seems like coffeemakers die on us about every 2 or 3 years, no matter what brand they are, so we tend to aim for the lower end of the market. This Black & Decker unit gets the job done admirably and has all the features we want or need. We wish it was 12 cups instead of 10, but that's a small inconvenience. Also, it takes cone-shaped filters instead of flat ones (of which we have several boxes), but again, that's a small issue and not really something to obsess about. We spent the money we saved over buying a Braun or something fancier than B&D on a reverse osmosis system so we could have really good water to make coffee, and we've found that having good water makes a huge difference in how the coffee tastes (plus, it means there's no lime build-up inside the machine).

Great Machine
This is a perfect machine. It makes great coffee and has a 2-hour automatic shut-off time. It has a sleek black design, and I love it way more than the crappy thermal Braun machines.

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